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Olivier (Hrsg.) Roy

Religious Diversity in European Prisons

Challenges and Implications for Rehabilitation

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This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization. Social scientists studying corrections have noted the important role that religious or spiritual practice can have on rehabilitation. In the past, the historical figure of the prison chaplain operated primarily in a Christian context, following primarily a Christian model. Increasingly, prison populations (inmates as well as employees) display diversity in their ethnic, cultural, religious and geographic backgrounds. As public institutions, prisons are compelled to uphold the human rights of their inmates, includi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Becci, Irene (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-36680-7
  • EAN: 9783319366807
  • Produktnummer: 21428487
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 204 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.1 cm 318 g
  • Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor


Irene Becci is professor for Emerging socio-religious processes and new spiritualities at the Institute of Social Sciences of Religion at the University of Lausanne. She holds a PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute. Irene Becci has worked on the topic of religion in prisons during her doctoral and on religion for ex-prisoners in her postdoctoral studies, comparing Italy, Germany and Switzerland. She is currently enlarging her perspective to other state institutions dealing with religious diversity and spirituality. She has published widely on the subject, in particular: Imprisoned Religion: Transformations of Religion During and After Imprisonment in Eastern Germany (2012, Farnham: Ashgate). Olivier Roy is Professor at the European University Institute where he heads the Mediterranean Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and is director of the program ReligioWest. He has been a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (since 1985), Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (since 2003), and visiting Professor at Berkeley University (2008/2009). He headed the OSCE's Mission for Tajikistan (1993-1994) and was a Consultant for the UN office of the Coordination for Afghanistan (1988). His field work include Afghanistan, Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions. He received an Aggregation de Philosophie and a Ph.D. in Political Science. He is the author of The failure of Political Islam (Harvard UP 1994), Globalized Islam (Columbia University Press, 2004) and more recently of La Sainte Ignorance (Holy Ignorance, Columbia University Press, 2010). He is presently working on Islamic norms in the public sphere, conversions, apostasy and comparative religions.

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